Progressives Support Shoring Up ACA Before Tackling Medicare For All

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60. No, I'm not seeing #26 telling the poster that "they just misunderstood their life"

or anything like that.

Look, my point is that when a poster states that the ACA has been horrible for them/their family, it really isn't asking so much to acknowledge the truth of their situation.

If by, 'the truth' of their situation is that "the ACA is a failure for EVERYONE with a chronic illness, because of their personal experience," that's not going to be acknowleged, because it's not true.

Did you see the statement that #26 is responding to?

"The ACA is horrible for anyone that is or has a family member with a chronic illness"

#26 rebuts that as a universal experience of people with chronic illnesses since the ACA passed, because they have health care now that they didn't have access to prior to the ACA. Cha says: " Nobody is saying it's the endgame. These "progressives" know that..and want to strengthen it for those who are being helped by it.

Right wingers whose premiums got raised at all howled that the ACA is the reason that they rose, even if they rose less under the ACA than in previous years. They, too "wanted acknowledgement of the truth of their situation" which was that "the ACA was the reason they were paying more than last year in premiums." Any attempt to tell them that not only would their premiums have gone up even higher without the ACA, but that way more people were being covered who hadn't been before, so yes it was progress, would be as unhappy as the poster who is also blaming the ACA on continuing problems within our system that were worse before the ACA.

"I hear you and I sympathize" is a better first response.

LBN is a discussion board, not a support group. The support groups are listed near the bottom on the left navigation, just below "sports." The poster knows this and has been attempting to undermine support the ACA on other threads, trying to push the false narrative that shoring up the ACA is somehow an obstacle to MFA, and Democratic leaders are secretly meeting with and pandering to the private insurance execs, and it's corruption that causes them to 'choose' to try to repair the ACA, rather than demanding the politically impossible at this point in history Medicare for All.

Somehow, I don't think that the poster is here simply seeking sympathy and emotional validation.